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João Brandão
Researcher at Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge
Publications - 70
Citations - 1537
João Brandão is an academic researcher from Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 18, co-authored 61 publications receiving 1162 citations. Previous affiliations of João Brandão include University of Lisbon & Intelligence and National Security Alliance.
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Microbes in beach sands: integrating environment, ecology and public health
Richard L. Whitman,Valerie J. Harwood,Thomas A. Edge,Meredith B. Nevers,Muruleedhara N. Byappanahalli,Kannappan Vijayavel,João Brandão,Michael J. Sadowsky,Elizabeth Wheeler Alm,Allan Crowe,Donna M. Ferguson,Zhongfu Ge,Elizabeth Halliday,Julie L. Kinzelman,Greg Kleinheinz,Kasia Przybyla-Kelly,Christopher Staley,Zachery R. Staley,Helena M. Solo-Gabriele +18 more
TL;DR: Understanding of the community structure, ecology, fate, transport, and public health implications of microbes in beach sand is summarized and recommendations for future work are made in this vastly under-studied area.
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Performance of human fecal anaerobe-associated PCR-based assays in a multi-laboratory method evaluation study
Blythe A. Layton,Yiping Cao,Darcy L. Ebentier,Kaitlyn T. Hanley,Elisenda Ballesté,João Brandão,Muruleedhara N. Byappanahalli,Reagan R. Converse,Reagan R. Converse,Andreas H. Farnleitner,Jennifer Gentry-Shields,Maribeth L. Gidley,Michèle Gourmelon,Chang-Soo Lee,Jiyoung Lee,Solen Lozach,Tania Madi,Wim G. Meijer,Rachel T. Noble,Lindsay Peed,Georg H. Reischer,Raquel Rodrigues,Joan B. Rose,Alexander Schriewer,Chris Sinigalliano,Sangeetha Srinivasan,Jill R. Stewart,Laurie C. Van De Werfhorst,Dan Wang,Richard L. Whitman,Stefan Wuertz,Stefan Wuertz,Jenny Jay,Patricia A. Holden,Alexandria B. Boehm,Orin C. Shanks,John F. Griffith +36 more
TL;DR: Overall, HF183 Taqman(®) was found to be the most effective marker of human fecal contamination in this California-based study.
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Minimizing errors in RT-PCR detection and quantification of SARS-CoV-2 RNA for wastewater surveillance
Warish Ahmed,Stuart L. Simpson,Paul M. Bertsch,Kyle Bibby,Aaron Bivins,Linda L. Blackall,Sílvia Bofill-Mas,Albert Bosch,João Brandão,Phil M. Choi,Phil M. Choi,Mark Ciesielski,Erica Donner,Nishita D'Souza,Andreas H. Farnleitner,Andreas H. Farnleitner,Daniel Gerrity,Raul Gonzalez,John F. Griffith,Pradip Gyawali,Charles N. Haas,Kerry A. Hamilton,Hapuarachchige Chanditha Hapuarachchi,Valerie J. Harwood,Rehnuma Haque,Greg Jackson,Stuart J. Khan,Wesaal Khan,Masaaki Kitajima,Asja Korajkic,Giuseppina La Rosa,Blythe A. Layton,Erin K. Lipp,Sandra L. McLellan,Brian R. McMinn,Gertjan Medema,Suzanne Metcalfe,Wim G. Meijer,Jochen F. Mueller,Heather M. Murphy,Coleen C. Naughton,Rachel T. Noble,Sudhi Payyappat,Susan Petterson,Tarja Pitkänen,Tarja Pitkänen,Verónica Beatriz Rajal,Brandon Reyneke,Fernando A. Roman,Joan B. Rose,Marta Rusiñol,Michael J. Sadowsky,Laura Sala-Comorera,Yin Xiang Setoh,Samendra P. Sherchan,Kwanrawee Sirikanchana,Wendy Smith,Joshua A. Steele,Rosalie Subburg,Erin M. Symonds,Phong K. Thai,Kevin V. Thomas,Josh Tynan,Simon Toze,Janelle R. Thompson,Andrew S. Whiteley,Judith Chui Ching Wong,Daisuke Sano,Stefan Wuertz,Stefan Wuertz,Irene Xagoraraki,Qian Zhang,Amity G. Zimmer-Faust,Orin C. Shanks +73 more
TL;DR: A technical review of factors that can lead to false-positive and -negative errors in the surveillance of SARS-CoV-2, culminating in recommendations and strategies that can be implemented to identify and mitigate these errors.
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Validation of host-specific Bacteriodales 16S rRNA genes as markers to determine the origin of faecal pollution in Atlantic Rim countries of the European Union.
Andrew Gawler,Jean Beecher,João Brandão,Nora Carroll,Leonor Falcão,Michèle Gourmelon,Bartholomew Masterson,Baltazar Nunes,Jonathan Porter,Jonathan Porter,Alain Rincé,Raquel Rodrigues,Martin Thorp,J. Martin Walters,Wim G. Meijer +14 more
TL;DR: It was shown that the HF183F marker displayed high sensitivity (80-100%) and specificity (91-100%), and is reliable as an indication of human faecal contamination, and the need for local validation before this marker is employed in source tracking of faecic contamination.
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Fungal Contaminants in Drinking Water Regulation? A Tale of Ecology, Exposure, Purification and Clinical Relevance
Monika Novak Babič,Nina Gunde-Cimerman,Márta Vargha,Zsófia Tischner,Donát Magyar,Cristina Veríssimo,Raquel Sabino,Carla Viegas,Wieland Meyer,João Brandão +9 more
TL;DR: This white paper focuses on one group of contaminants known to cause allergies, opportunistic infections and intoxications: Fungi and presents a review on their occurrence, ecology and physiology.